aim: what is history?

AIM: What is History?

DO NOW: Explore the quotes on the worksheet and determine whether they are a positive or negative view of history?

What is History?

History is not just a simple list of facts from the past. It is the way people look at or interpret the meaning of those facts.

Different people will look at the facts in different ways.

History is the study of the past

Interpretation

What’s Included?• Prehistory

• History Before Writing

Writing (800 BC)

Different Methods ?

Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484 BCE – ca. 425 BCE)

Thucydides (ca. 460 BCE – ca. 400 BCE)

Used stories told to him from different

cultures to write his books

“The Histories”

Used scientific approach attributing

major events to human choice rather than divine intervention and relied of factual and observations.

Timelines:

End to End

Timeline TermsWHAT IS

BC?• Before Christ•Also called Before the Common Era = BCE

WHAT IS AD?

• After Christ (Ann0 Domini)

• Also called the Common Era = CE

NOW WHERE ARE THEY ON A TIMELINE?

100 AD1 AD

332 BC

500 BC

500 AD

332 BC 100 AD

What About Zero?Where is zero on the timeline?

ZERO

Timeline RulesDates are Earlier From 1 AD

Dates are OlderFrom 1 AD to BC

How to Read a Time Line

Timeline Rules

BC Rule – The Higher the Date the Earlier in Time it is (Oldest). AD Rule – The

Higher the Date the Later in Time it is (Newest).

Timeline Rules

1000

AD

500

AD

500 Years

If in the same time period (AD or BC) You subtract the dates.

Timeline Rules

2000

BC

1000

BC

1000

Years

If in the same time period (AD or BC) You subtract the dates.

Timeline Rules

2000

BC500AD

2500

Years

If NOT in the same time period (AD or BC) You add the dates.

Timeline Rules

332BC

778AD

1110

Years

If NOT in the same time period (AD or BC) You add the dates.

Timeline BasicsWhat is Circa?

Circa means: around or about

Examples: c. 5000BC c. 20,000BCE c. 300AD c. 800CE

The reason why we call it Social Studies is because there are many disciplines (fields) within the Social Sciences.

The Social Sciences

AnthropologyStudy of humankind

Anthropologist

ArchaeologyStudy human society usually from artifacts.

Archaeologist

EconomicsStudy of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

Economist

SociologyThe study of society

Sociologist

PhilosophyThe study of social problems

1: Zeno of Citium 2: Epicurus 3: (Federico II of Mantua?) 4: Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles? 5: Averroes 6: Pythagoras 7: Alcibiades or Alexander the Great? 8: Antisthenes or Xenophon? 9: Hypatia (Francesco Maria della Rovere?) 10: Aeschines or Xenophon? 11: Parmenides? 12: Socrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristotle 16: Diogenes 17: Plotinus (Donatello?) 18: Euclid or Archimedes with students (Bramante)? 19: Zoroaster 20: Ptolemy? R: Apelles (Raphael) 21: Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino, or Timoteo Viti)

Sociologist